Dated October 7th, 2009:
Barney finds a puppy in his suit. Turns out it just might be a miracle after all.

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Seeing the baby a week before had really made things real for Ellie. It was one thing to know she was there, but it was another to have a picture. At the very least, she was put at ease seeing everything was progressing normally. That she was finally starting to feel better after what felt like a long time of always feeling sick helped along her ( Read more... )

Dated during Laser Tag Mania, 2009:
In the midst of the laser tag games and pumping with adrenaline, Robin accidentally gets into the carpool line on the Relationship Highway by uttering the L word.

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If Lewis Nixon isn't careful, he's going to end up an upstanding member of society. Here he is with the sun setting over the west side of the island, sweaty and dirt-grimed and completely blue-collar, finishing up the frame for one of the many doors they'll be installing in the new barracks across from the Officer's Club. A Club which, he might ( Read more... )

It was quite the ideal scene. A man smoking while sitting on a rock under a set of palm trees, a half empty bottle of scotch by his feet and a book open in his lap. At first glance, he seemed relaxed, as if taking a pause from his reading to contemplate the ocean crashing only a hundred or so feet away, smoke lazy drifting around his head before ( Read more... )

In a matter of days, Adrian would face the passing of yet another annual of his life. He stood there watching himself age as if the ticking of time could slow to the point that a mere human being could see its effects on mankind. He would be forty-seven and that appeared to be a slight cant older than the general populace of the Island ( Read more... )

Tonight was the most glorious night- when the Bob Barker Memorial Laser Tag Park was finally unveiled for all to see. He'd spent the past few days making sure everything was just right so that it was all a vision of light-based fake violence. As if in anticipation, the jukebox had been playing his 'Get Psyched' mix for the past day and a half on ( Read more... )

When all was said and done, it looked like something out of a storybook ( Read more... )

Today was a big day for Tabula Rasa, even if it didn't know it yet. Today was the day it had been waiting for. There was one thing missing on the island (in addition to: Ted Mosby, Ewoks, dry cleaning and more lesbians), and Barney Stinson was here to rectify that ( Read more... )

Dated March 8th, 2009:
After the pregnancy scare, Robin just wants to go someplace and get held instead of needing to perform. So she intrudes on Skinny Sisk's bedspace.

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Dated March 9th, 2009:
Robin returns from her night away to find Barney at her place. They go over the rules of their arrangement again and cuddling is ( Read more... )